john@ai.etl.army.mil (John Benton) (11/03/88)
Tutorials in Support of the
U. S. ARMY SYMPOSIUM ON
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH FOR EXPLOITATION
ON THE BATTLEFIELD ENVIRONMENT
Tutorial Agenda
Monday, 14 November 1988
0830 STI Tutorial #620
Artifical Intelligence: An Overview of Current Research
Dr. Dan Patterson, University of Texas, El Paso
1200 Lunch
1330 STI Tutorial #645
Environmental Effects on the Battlefield: Potential for AI
Applications
Dr. Donald W. Hoock, Dr. Robert A. Sutherland,
Dr. Richard C. Shirkey, U. S. Army Atmospheric Sciences
Laboratory
STI Tutorial #668
Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Dr. H. Dennis Parker, Colorado State University
1700 Tutorials End
1830 STI Tutorial #634
Artifical Intelligence in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Applications
Dr. Andrew U. Frank, University of Maine in Orono
2200 Tutorial Ends
U. S. ARMY SYMPOSIUM ON
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH FOR EXPLOITATION
ON THE BATTLEFIELD ENVIRONMENT
Technical Agenda
Monday, 14 November 1988
1800 Early Registration - Grand Ball Room
Tuesday, 15 November 1988
0700 Registration
OPENING SESSION
Chairman, Dr. Richard B. Gomez, U. S. Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories
0800 Administrative Remarks
Dr. Paul D. Try, Science and Technology Corporation
0805 Introductory Comments
Dr. Richard B. Gomez, U. S. Army Engineer Topographic
Laboratories
0815 Welcome by Co-Host
Dr. Diana S. Natalicio, Univeristy of Texas at El Paso
0825
Dr. Darrell Collier, TRADOC Analysis Command,White Sands Missile Range
0835 Welcome by Co-Host
BG Jay M. Garner, U. S. Army Air Defense Artillery Center
and School
0845 Introduction of Keynote Speaker
BG Jay M. Garner, U. S. Army Air Defense Artillery Center
and School
0850 Keynote Address
Gen. Glenn K. Otis, USA, Ret. Past Commander in Chief,
U. S. Army Europe
0930 Break
SESSION 2:Military Overview (Doctrine)
Chairman, TBA
1000 Introduction
TBA
1000 Air Land Battle Doctrine
TBA
1020 Terrain Support Doctrine
TBA
1040 Space Support Realistic Battlefield
Col. Ronan I. Ellis, Army Space Institute
1100 Functional Area Overview (Relationships to Artificial
Intelligence)
TBA
Maneuver
Fire Support
Combat Service Support
Intelligence and Electronic Warfare
Air Defense
1200 Lunch
1330 Opening Address
Dr. Hamid M. El-Bisi, Office of the Assistant Secretary of
the Army for Research, Developement and Acquisition
SESSION 3: The Realistic Battlefield
Chairman: Dr. Howard Holt, Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory
1400 Design of a Software Environment for Tactical Stituation
Development
M. J. Coombs, and R. T. Hartley, Computing Research
Laboratory and J. R. Thompson, Science Applications
International
Presented by: M. J. Coombs
1430 Issues Surrounding Development of Meteorological Environmental
Expert Systems
Timothy Sletten and Mark Stunder, GEOMET Technology, Inc.
Presented by: Timothy Sletten
1450 Shootout-89: A Comparative Evaluation of AI Systems for
Convective Storm Forecasting
W. R. Moninger, NOAA/Forecast Systems Laboratory
Presented by: Chris Fields, CRL
1505 A Heuristic Low Level Turbulence Forecast Decision Aid
Martin E. Lee, U. S. Army Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory
1515 An Expert Systems Approach to Advisory Weather Forecasting
Young P. Yee and David J. Novlan, U. S. Army Atmospheric
Sciences Laboratory
Presented by: Young P. Yee
1530 Break
1600 Synopsis of Talk on Parallel Neural Models for Knowledge
Presentation
Larry Lesser, ParaSoft
1610 The Realistic Battlefield: AI and Battlefield Management
of the Biological Warfare Threat
Gilcin F. Meadors, III, LTC, MC; Dallas C. Hack, MAJ, MC,
and Glen A. Higbee, USAMRIID
Presented by: LTC Gilcin Meadors
1620 Symbolic Image and Terrain Processing to Automate the
Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield
Paul D. Lampru, Consultant's Choice, Inc.
1635 Army Requirements for an Intelligent Interface to a Real Time
Meteorological Data Base
G. McWilliams, S. Kirby, U. S. Army Atmospheric Sciences
Lab and C. A. Fields, M. J. Coombs, T. C. Eskridge, R. T.
Hartley, H. D. Pfeiffer, C. A. Soderlund, New Mexico State
University
Presented by: G. McWilliams
1645 Concept for Weather Related Decision Aids for the Tactical
Commander
Bernard F. Engebos, Robert R. Lee and Robert Scheinhartz,
U. S. Army Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory
Presented by: Bernard F. Engebos
1655 Panel Responses
M. J. Coombs
R. Dyer
T. Sletten
C. Fields
L. Lessor
1710 General Discussion
1740 Session Ends
1900 Symposium Dinner and Special Entertainment
Wednesday, 16 November
0700 Registration
0800 Opening Address
Mr. Bob Benn, Headquarters, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
SESSION 4:Automated Terrain Reasoning
Chairman: John Benton, U. S. Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories
0830 Representation Issues in the Design of a Spatial Database
Management System
Richard Antony, U.S. Army Center for Signals Warfare
0850 Scale-Space Representations for Flexible Automated Terrain
Reasoning
David M. Keirsey, Jimmy Krozel and David W. Payton, Hughes
Artificial Intelligence Center
Presented by: David M. Keirsey
0910 Spatial Analysis for Automated Terrain Reasoning
David L. Milgram, Richard F. Shu, and Michael J. Black,
Advanced Decision Systems
Presented by: David L. Milgram
0930 Break
1000 Panel Discussion, Dr. Leopoldo Gemoets, Moderator
Panel Members: R. Antony, D. Keirsey, D. McDermott, D. Milgram,
and H. Samet
1030 Allocating Sensor Envelope Patterns to a MAP Partitioned by
Territorial Contours
Terence M. Cronin, U. S. Army Center for Signals Warfare
1050 Terrain Reasoning in Support of Air Land Battle Management
Thomas Garvey and Charles Ortiz, SRI International
Presented by: Charles Ortiz
1110 A Multi-Level Knowledge Representation for Terrain Reasoning
Iris Cox Hayslip, Gruman Corporate Research Center
1130 Future Minefield Terrain Analysis Requirements
Robert Sickler, US Army Engineering School
1145 A Knowledge Representation Schema and Surface Feature and
Terrain Elevation Data: With Special Application to Meteorology
Stephen Kirby, Gary McWilliams, US Army Atmospheric
Sciences Lab and Cathy Cavendish, Computing Research
Laboratory
Presented by: Cathy Cavendish
1200 Lunch
Please note: SESSION 5 and SESSION 6 run concurrently
SESSION 5:State of the Art Applications
Chairman: Dr. Morton A. Hirschberg, US Army Ballistic Research Laboratory
1330 Architecture of MERCURY Mesoscale Met Data Fusion System
C. A. Fields, M. J. Coombs, T. C. Eskridge, R. T. Hartley,
H. D. Pfeiffer and S. A. Soderlund, New Mexico State
University; S. Kirby and G. McWilliams, U. S. Army
Atmospheric Sciences Lab
Presented by: Chris Fields
1350 Applying Artifical Intelligence Techniques to the GIS Data
Acquisition Problem
MAJ Robert F. Richbourg, United States Military Academy
1410 An Expert System for Minefield Site Prediction
Johnathan Doughty and Ann Downs, Par Government Systems
Corporation
1430 Neural Networks, Complexity, and the Realistic Battlefield
Edward M. Measure and Jeff M. Balding, US Army Atmospheric
Sciences Laboratory
1450 Break
1520 Decision Support Systems Software for the Battlefield
Environment
Kerry Gates and Scott Barrett, PAR Government Systems
Corporation
Presented by: Scott Barrett
1540 Avenue of Approach Generation
Dennis R. Powell and Greg Storm, Los Alamos National
Laboratory
Presented by: Dennis Powell
1600 Mobility Corridor Generation a Different Approach
James C. Wright, Los Alamos National Laboratory
1620 Between Prototype and Deployment: Lessons Learned Field Testing
and Expert System
Rosemary M. Dyer, Air Force Geophysics Laboratory
1640 Session Ends
SESSION 6:Basic Research in Aritificial Intelligence
Chairman: Dr. Gordon Novak
CoChairman: Dr. Joseph H. Pierluissi
1330 Computer Detection and Tracking of Multiple Object in Television
Images
Andrew Bernat, Stephen Riter, and Darrel Schroder,
University of Texas at El Paso
1350 Spatial Averaging of Soil Moisture
P. J. LaPotin, Dartmouth College and H. L. McKim, US Army
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
1410 Utility of an Artifical Intelligence System in Forecasting of
Boundary-Layer Dynamics
M. D. McCorcle, S. E. Taylor and J. D. Fast, Iowa State
University
1430 Optimal Pattern Recognition for Perception Neural Networks
Perry J. LaPotin, Harlan L. McKim, Dartmouth College and
Michael F. Masuch, University of Amsterdam
1450 Break
1520 Research in Terrain Knowledge Representation for Image
Interpretation and Terrain Analysis
Olin Mintzer, US Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories
1540 Ground Combat Vehicle Decision Support
Thomas R. Hester, The AI Center, FMC
1600 Pattern Oriented Expert Systems
G. Morales and R. McIntyre, University of Texas
1620 Improved Expert System Performance Through Knowledge Shaping
Joseph A. Vrba and Juan A. Herrera, Perceptics Corporation
1640 Symposium Ends
U.S. Army Symposium on
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH FOR EXPLOITATION OF THE
BATTLEFIELD ENVIRONMENT
The Westin Hotel Del Norte
El Paso Texas
15-16 November 1988
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John R. Benton at the U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories
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